Armed with that legislative precedent - and mindful of where its funding originates - Amtrak has since 1983 refused to crew Northeast Corridor trains with more than one employee in the cab -- the locomotive engineer.

If the coalition won a majority of Congress and managed to pass the legislation ignoring a landmark legislative precedent, it would be hard to argue that the constitutional judgment was in any sense a "governmental norm[] that ha[d] achieved unsurpassed importance in American society.

These comments ranged from a call to delete the Forward or parts of it, to recommendations to eliminate the standard altogether because there is no legislative precedent to limit halogens in electronics.

In light of the different catastrophic emergencies we have seen--both here and in New Orleans--the flexibility required to prepare and respond in innovative ways is critical and this ruling reaffirms the legislative precedent allowing the planners to do their jobs without being second guessed.

8) Isacks's comment illustrates a key aspect of the debate he and his colleagues were engaged in: whether Congress could rely on legislative precedent as conclusive evidence of the proper construction of the Constitution.

The House's success with the Contract with America - a sweeping package of tax cuts, welfare reform, tort reform, regulatory reform, and congressional reform - was without legislative precedent in modern times.

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